I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.